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An honest question: Does the highest paid engineer know that (s)he makes slightly more than you? If so, does (s)he know of it in an official capacity or has (s)
by msravi 11y ago
An honest question: Does the highest paid engineer know that (s)he makes slightly more than you? If so, does (s)he know of it in an official capacity or has (s)he sort-of figured it out?
Oftentimes, I've found that management operates from a position of informational advantage, while a person on a parallel technical track at the same level has access to a lot less information. Hence the question.
- adaml_623 11y agoThat's a really good question
- k__ 11y agoWhere I worked, there were a few senjor devs who got the biggest pay-checks. Funny thing is, they weren't the most influencial people, they just got a problem and solved it. If the times were though, they sometimes even were "set free" because they company could operate without them, just don't do much new stuff anymore.
- dwmtm 11y agoIs there any meaningful sense in which a tech-tracker has more official or unofficial access to information?
- msravi 11y agoSorry, it's late here and my brain is just unable to parse your sentence. Are you asking if it matters if the information is gained officially or unofficially?
- dwmtm 11y agoI'm asking if managerial information is a strict superset of engineer information. Control of admin passwords to software seems useless or illegal w.r.t. the concept of information here.
- sarwechshar 11y agoPlot twist: the engineer is the CTO.
- anotherdatem 11y agoThey don't have any formal way of knowing my salary, and I don't know what they think I make. I'd share the details of the managerial bands if they were considering a switch, but to date they've been very clear that they're happy staying technical.